2012 Richard Stallman, Gabe Newell, and Notch calll Windows 8 a Catastrophe2013 Steam for Linux released2014 Steam Machines announced2014 A LOT of talk about improving OpenGL so that it can be better than Direct3D once again 2014 WWE Network and Netflix support Linux2014 systemd finally gets adopted by Debian and Ubuntu, standardizing all the Linux distros in a way that the LSB and FHS never managed to2014 Over 800 Linux games2014 Microsoft gets scared, lets OEM touch the user experience FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER and release a "Steam Machine" with Windows 8 that boots into Steam BPM instead of Metro. It was a huge flop2015 Year of the First fully sandboxed Linux app, enhancing security and putting an end to dependency hell2015 Valve/Kronos announce glNext AKA Vulkan, the next-get graphics API based on AMD Mantle2015 Steam Machines launch2015 Over 1000 Linux games on Steam (Expected around April)2015 Snowden reveals that Microsoft IS the NSA!!!2015 ????2016 Year of the Linux desktop